Michael Linkletter
Michael Linkletter, in addition to being head of the Celtic Studies Department, holds the Sister Saint Veronica Chair in Gaelic Studies and is the Graduate Studies Coordinator for the MA program in Celtic Studies. Michael holds a Master's and PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University with a doctoral dissertation entitled “Bu Dual Dha Sin (That Was His Birthright): Gaelic Scholar Alexander Maclean Sinclair (1840-1924).” As an undergraduate Michael attended St. Francis Xavier University where he received degrees in Celtic Studies and History. His research interests vary but he primarily focuses on the history, culture, language and literature of the Scottish Gaels in Canada. He has been a professor at StFX since 2001.
’Se Ceannard Roinn na Ceiltis agus gléidheadair dhen Chathair na Peathar Naomh Veronica ann an Gàidhlig a th’ ann am Mìcheal Linkletter. Is esan cuideachd co-òrdanaiche a’ phrògraim MA ann an Ceiltis. Tha MA agus PhD aige bho Oilthigh Harvard ann an cànain agus litreachasan Ceilteach le tràchdas a sgrìobh e “Bu Dual Dha Sin” air sgoilear na Gàidhlig Alasdair MacIlleathain Sinclair (1840-1924). Chaidh Mìcheal gu Oilthigh Naoimh Fransaidh Xavier airson BA ann an Ceiltis agus BA eile ann an Eachdraidh. Tha ùidh rannsachaidh aige ann an iomadh rud, gu h-àiridh ann an eachdraidh, cultar, cànan is litreachas nan Gàidheal ann an Canada. Tha e air a bhith ’na ollamh aig NFX bho 2001.
Linkletter, Michael. Forthcoming. Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers, s.v. “Blair, Duncan Black (Rev.), Donnchadh B. Blàr, Strachur/Canada, 1815–93,” s.v. “MacDonald, Alexander, Alasdair an Ridge, Antigonish (Nova Scotia), 1823–1904,” s.v. “MacLeod, Jane, Sìne Mhór, Prince Edward Island,” s.v. “Nicholson, Patrick Joseph (Rt Rev.), Cape Breton, 1887–1965,” and s.v. “Sinclair, Alexander Maclean (Rev.), Glenbard (Nova Scotia), 1840–1923,” Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Linkletter, Michael. 2020. “Two Satires, Three Men and a Gaelic Newspaper: A Nineteenth-Century Tale,” in Natasha Sumner & Aidan Doyle (eds), North American Gaels: Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 315-38.
Linkletter, Michael. 2020. “The Rev. D. B. Blair of Cowal and Nova Scotia (1815-1893),” in Sheila M. Kidd, Thomas Owen Clancy and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (eds), Cànan, Litreachas, Eachdraidh: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7, Glasgow: Dept of Celtic, University of Glasgow, 165-77.
Stanley-Blackwell, Laurie and Michael Linkletter. 2020. “Looking for Thistles in Stone Gardens: The Cemeteries of Nova Scotia’s Scottish Immigrants,” in Nicholas Evans and Angela McCarthy (eds), Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 81-107.
Stanley-Blackwell, Laurie and Michael Linkletter. 2018. “Inscribing Ethnicity: A Preliminary Analysis of Gaelic Headstone Inscriptions in Eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton," in a special issue on “Cemeteries and Churchyards,” Genealogy 2, no. 3: 29. Open access: https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy2030029
